Van had searched as hard as he could for a long time but was unable to find
any sign of where she was. He hadn't given up hope on finding her but went
back to the base very disheartened. "Did you have any luck Van?" asked
Thomas who was waiting for him. "No," said Van in a tone of voice that
didn't sound anything like his usual self. "We must find her we don't know
what Eric will do to her after what he did last time," said Thomas thinking
back to what had happened to Fiona. "Van you need to stop blaming yourself
though. You won't be able to find her in the state that you are in now,"
said Thomas. Van just walked off leaving Thomas alone. "I was only trying
to help," Thomas yelled back at Van's retreating form.
All that night Van just laid awake thinking about Fiona. "I should not have left her here alone," he said to himself. "It is all my fault. He has her because of me. I failed in my promise to her. However I have to try and make good on it or I won't be able to live with myself," he said as confidence was building up in his voice. "I will find her. I have to find her. it is the only way that I can be happy again," he said to himself. "I don't know where she is though. So how will I know where to look," Van said to himself. "I can't let her stay with him, but there isn't anything that I can do. "She is more important to me than anything. Yet I failed to protect her," Van said to himself. "Fiona," was the last thing that he said before he fell into a very restless sleep.
Fiona was just waking up and she was unsure where she was. "Ah she is waking up," said a voice Fiona had not heard before. She then got to have a very blurry look around at her surrounding. She was in a cell as far as she could tell but her vision was still blurry and she felt dizzy from the drug. "Where am I," Fiona asked still trying to see thing a little more clearly. "You young zoidian will not know that or if you escape you will tell your friends the location of this place," said the man very calmly. "Who are you?" asked Fiona slightly fearful of the answer. "He is just a doctor my dear Fiona," came Eric's voice. Suddenly Fiona started to get dizzy again and passed out. "She is out cold again. How much of that drug did you give her?" asked the man glaring at Eric. "Too much unfortunately doctor," said Eric in a voice that was way to calm. "Well it is not like it will matter I will soon have all the information that I will need for you," said the doctor. "That is good," said Eric, "and you will soon be all mine Fiona," said Eric as he put a grin on his face.
"Have you found out anything yet on where Fiona is yet?" asked Moonbay who had a broken arm that was in a cast. "Nothing as of yet," said Herman staring at a bunch of data on a screen. "Where is Van?" asked Irvine looking around the Van-less room. He also hadn't even seen him for most of the day. "I thought he would have been helping us look for her," said Irvine very seriously. "He is in his room sulking once again," said Moonbay in a disappointed voice. "He hasn't slept in days and won't do anything," said Moonbay. "Why is he taking this so hard? She was our friend too and we aren't acting like that," said Irvine. "I don't know. There must be something going on between the two of them," said Moonbay. "I think that may be it," said Irvine as he turned around and walked towards the door. "Where are you going?" asked Moonbay seeing him leave. "I am going to see if I can get him out of there," said Irvine as he walked off. "He could definitely use a good talking to with the way that he has been acting these past few days. There was definitely something going on between them but what I wonder actually happened?" Moonbay asked herself.
There was a knock on Vans door and Irvine walked in to find Van just lying on his bed staring at the ceiling with a blank look in his eye. "Van when are you going to get over this. You won't find Fiona by doing nothing," said Irvine in a very serious tone. "Fiona would never be in this mess if I had never found that guy," said Van. "Will you get over this Van? You have to stop blaming yourself. You tried to stop him but you didn't know what he was going to do," yelled Irvine. Van chose to ignore this, which really started to piss off Irvine. "What would Fiona say if she saw the way you are acting right now," said Irvine. Van was hit hard with these few words. Van finally started to talk a little more sensible. "She wouldn't be happy with the way I am acting," said Van starting to regain some of his old self. "Now are you going to come and help us or not," said Irvine. "Yeah. I will be in a few minutes," said Van quietly. "Ok," said Irvine as he walked out of the room. "I shouldn't have been acting like that. I was only making it worse for myself. Now I have to find Fiona before he does anything to hurt her even more," said Van as he walked out of the room.
Fiona was waking up again but this time she was not in a prison cell but in a very nice bedroom. As she stayed there on the bed she started to recover from the effect of the drug. "How long have I been out for?" she asked herself as she groggily sat up in the bed. "One week," came a voice that made Fiona jump since it was coming from Eric. "Keep away from me," yelled Fiona as she jumped far away from him. "What is wrong Fiona not happy to see me?" asked Eric and this made Fiona get even more scared than before. "Fine have it your way for now, but soon you will be mine," said Eric and he left the room. As he walked away he said to himself "Yes you will be mine and you will forget all about Van and your other friends." "It might not be as easy as that," said a voice that came from behind him. Eric turned around and saw the doctor standing behind him. "What do you mean by that?" asked Eric looking skeptically at the doctor. "What I mean is," he then whispered something to Eric. "What? You have to be kidding!" yelled Eric with fury all over his face. "I am afraid not," said the doctor. "There is no doubt about it," said the doctor. Fiona who had been listening through the door and was shocked at what she had just heard. She backed away from the door and fell to her knees. 'I can't be,' thought Fiona as she placed her hands on the ground to help support herself because she felt like she was going to faint. 'It just can't be,' she thought again.
The door to Fiona's room after a few minutes and Eric came walking through with a face full of fury. He saw Fiona on the ground with a look of disbelief on her face. "How dare you," he said in a very low tone. He walked up to Fiona and just stood there, standing before her looking down at her startled Form. He then brought a hand back and slapped Fiona hard across the face. Fiona flew back a couple of feet due to the force of the hit. She got back up and held her now sore cheek in her hands. "How dare you," he repeated in the same low tone as he had before. Fiona stared at him with fear in her eyes from all of the fury that she saw on him. "What made you think that you could do something like that?" he asked, as he got right into her face sending glares at her. The fear that Fiona was feeling before was nothing compared to what she was feeling now. "When you are with someone. You are not supposed to do something like that with another man," he said in a deranged voice. "I was never with you," Fiona yelled into his face. "Yes you are. You are mine, and mine only. Don't you see that?" he asked. "No! I am not yours. I hate you with everything that I am. I love Van and he loves me," she yelled into his face again. He was taken back by her sudden outburst. He quickly recovered though and for some strange reason he put a smirk on his face. "Such a fiery spirit you have. That is why I love you. I will have a lot of fun trying to tame you though," he said with a smile as he walked out of the room.
Van was out looking around for anything that might lead him to finding Fiona. "Man this is getting old we have checked about everywhere and have found no sign about the location of Fiona or that guy Eric," said Van as he pounded his hands on a nearby wall. "Lets not give up Van we will find her sooner or later," said Thomas. "The question I have is if she will be ok when we find her," said Van thinking of all the bad things that Eric could have been doing to her. "He hurt her so badly before and I wasn't there to help in time to stop him. Now it is happening again and I need to find her more than anything," said Van. "It is one of the few things that will keep me going since I know that I have to get her away from him. No matter what it takes though I will help her," said Van with a determination in his eyes that startled Thomas slightly. 'What is up with him? There is something different about him. I can't figure it out though. Could something have happened that I don't know about?' he thought while staring at his friend. "I hope so," said Thomas. "Fiona is scared of him after what he did to her. I can't leave her in his hands. That is why I must find her at all costs," said Van with the determination still very strong in his voice. "She is strong. So I am sure she will be ok once we find her," said Thomas trying to reassure Van. "I know she is. With someone like Eric though, I don't think that it will be enough for her. I hope that she can hold out though until I get there," said Van as he turned around and started to walk away.
"Ah Fiona are you ever going to eat anything," said Eric who was trying to give Fiona food but she kept on rejecting them. "You know that it isn't healthy for you. Especially now," he said with a smile. "Stay away from me," said Fiona not looking at him. "Why Fiona? I am only trying to help you. Yet you are denying my kindness," said Eric putting on a face that made Fiona feel like throwing up. "Van will come to get me and you will be sorry when he finds you," said Fiona with a determination in her eyes that made Eric mad. He managed to calm down though and said, "I doubt it. It has been two weeks since you came here and it doesn't look like they are trying hard enough to find you. So why do you still keep up this small hope that they are actually going to come for you?" asked Eric with a smile on her face. "Van promised me that he would always be there for me and he will come," said Fiona. "He will never find this place so I have nothing to worry about and you will be mine forever," said Eric as he left the room. "Where are you Van?" Fiona asked herself. "You promised. So where could you be?" she asked.
Fiona just stared out a window that was barred up so that she couldn't escape. "I hate it here," she said as she continued to stare out of the window. "I have to escape this place. Yet there doesn't appear to be any way out of here at the moment. The windows are sealed, the door are locked except for when either he or his servants come for me," she said as she now stared at the door. She waited and waited till she got an idea. 'It might work if I am careful. All I have to do is have some patience for the time being. Later on a servant of Eric came in. He was once again trying to bring her food. Yet when he opened the door he didn't see anyone in the room. 'Oh no,' he thought as he tried to run out of the room but as soon as he turned he was hit upside the head with a lamp that Fiona had in her hands. "I can't believe that that work," said Fiona as she looked out the now open door. "I have to get out of here now before someone else comes for me," said Fiona as she ran through the door. The halls were empty but Fiona stilled remained completely alert. Ready in case a servant was to come out from around a corner to see her. She managed to get by as she looked for some way that might help her get out. Luckily for her, she saw a room that had a radio in it. "This will be good in case I get caught," she said quietly as she walked into the room.
Meanwhile Eric was going to check on Fiona. He walked into her room expecting to see her but he found the knocked out servant. "I don't believe it," he yelled as he ran out of the room. "Hey you seal off all the exits. The prisoner has escaped," he said as he ran down the hall and pulled an alarm. Soldiers were everywhere now and on the lookout for Fiona. "Where could she have gone to," he asked himself as he too looked for her hoping that she hadn't already have gotten out of the base. "Sir the area within a ten mile radius has been checked and there is no sign of any life forms out there," said a soldier after a number of minutes of searching. "Where could she be then? If she isn't out there then she must still be in here. She would be trying to hide or get some help. So that could only mean," he said as he suddenly realized where she was after all this time. "She had better not be doing what I think she is doing," he said as he ran down the halls.
At the base nothing was going on. "There is an incoming message," said a soldier. "Bring it up," said Herman as he waited for whoever it was that was trying to contact them to be brought up on the screen. Van and Thomas came walking into the room at this time and were wondering what was going on. A fuzzy screen was brought up but no one was able to make out who it was due to all the static. When the person spoke they were happy to hear that it was Fiona but she sounded terrified. "Please. It is me, Fiona. You have got to help me," said Fiona with terror very clear in her voice. "I am being held hostage and." she was unable to finish because the link died. "Fiona come in," yelled Van as he tried to bring it back up but he got nothing. 'He must have gotten her,' he thought as he knew what was going on at the moment. "Did you get where that was coming from," Van asked a soldier with urgency in his voice. "Hold on a minute as I trace the transmission," said a soldier as he typed in a few keys. A moment later a screen popped up showing the location of the signal. "It is there," said the soldier. 'Finally. We have found them. It is time for me to get you back Fiona,' thought Van.
"Why you! How dare you do this after all the hospitality I have given you," yelled Eric as he grabbed her by the hand hard and started to drag her back to her room. Fiona struggled but his grip was just too strong and she wasn't able to get out of it. "Hospitality you keep me locked up and won't let me go," said Fiona as she struggled against his grip. One slight move and Fiona was able to get her hand free. She immediately broke out in a run and he gave chance after her. It only took a few seconds for him to catch up to her and he grabbed her to prevent her from getting any farther. Fiona couldn't do anything to get loose this time. So she used her nails and gave him a nasty gash on his face. "Why you," he yelled before he used all of his strength and hit her hard across the head knocking her out. "I will not be giving you anymore hospitality," he said as he picked Fiona up and took her away. He quickly ran his hand over the cut and felt the blood as it ran onto his hands. "How dare you do this to me," he said as he carried her down the halls.
"It is time for us to get her back," said Van as determination filled his eyes. 'I will get you back Fiona I promise,' thought Van as he let out a sigh. "It will be about two days travel to get to our destination," said Thomas from the dibison. "That is ok as long as we are able to get Fiona back," said Van. "Van, I am curious about something," said Moonbay as she hopped into the gustav. "What's that?" asked Van as he laid back to try and get some sleep so that he would be at full strength once they got there. "You are acting very strangely when it comes to the subject of Fiona. We are all upset by this, but you have been taking this worse than any of us. Is there something that is going on between the two of you?" asked Moonbay as she turned around to Van expecting an answer but instead she found and already sleeping Van. "Fine. Have it your way, but I will get the answer sooner or later," said Moonbay as she turned back around and drove the gustav through the sandy desert.
It was a day before Fiona was finally able to wake up but this time she was not in the room but in a prison cell. "You are finally waking up," said Eric in a cold voice from right beside her cell. "Where am I?" asked Fiona trying to get a look around the room. "You are in my prison and you have been asleep for three days," said Eric in the same cold voice again. "Now I will give you a choice. You can either stay here and watch as I kill Van or you can be with me and I will let you out of here happily," said Eric as he started to laugh. "You will never be able to kill Van and I would never go with you," said Fiona. "I assure you that I am perfectly able to kill Van. It should be easy in fact," said Eric with a smirk as he returned to his usual self. Fiona wasn't sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. "No. You can't. He will get me out of here and we will be happy," said Fiona. "I can make you much happier. So why don't you stay with me?" asked Eric in a pleading voice. Fiona didn't respond to him. "So be it you will pay for this," he said as he walked off.
"Are you sure that you have gotten the coordinates right Moonbay?" asked Van as he looked at the map of their current location. "I am sure of it and we should be there by tomorrow," replied Moonbay. "I sure hope so, because I wouldn't want to take any longer to help her than I need to. She could be suffering and I have to get her out of there before he does something to her," he said hoping that everything was all right with Fiona. "I am sure that Fiona will be alright by the time that we get there. She is strong and will surely be able to hang on in this short amount of time," said Moonbay in hopes that it will help ensure Van that she would be ok. "Fiona, you have to hang on. We are all coming for you," Van said to himself.
"Sir we are ready to get this underway," said a servant. "Good," said Eric. "What is going on," said Fiona. "We are going to move to a new location after what you did they are bound to be on their way here by now," said Eric in an angry voice. "You are going to come if you like it or not so we could do this the easy way or the hard way," he said to Fiona who was struggling to get loose from the men that were holding her. "So be it, I guess it will be the hard way," said Eric as he took out a needle and a drug. He gave the drug to Fiona and she passed out almost immediately. "Take her away," said Eric and they did as they were told. "This could go easy on her if she would just do as I say," said Eric to himself. "Sir we have a problem," said a guard. "What is it?" asked Eric. "There is a large number of zoids heading our way and they should be here within the hour," said the guard. "What! We will have to speed up if we are to get away before they get here," said Eric and he ran off. "That isn't possible sir. It will take much longer than that even if we went as fast as possible," said the soldier. "Then I guess we will just have to fight them then," said Eric as he walked out of the room.
"Van, Irvine, and Thomas. We are coming up to the location so you had better get into your zoids," said Moonbay to the three guys in the back seat as she stopped the gustav for them to get out. "Right we will get going," said Van as he got out of the gustav to get to his zoid with Zeke following right behind him. "Zeke mobilize," yelled Van and Zeke fused with the liger. "We have to be prepared for anything that is to some. Do you think you can handle it Van?" asked Thomas. "I can handle anything if it means that I can get Fiona back to safety. I just know it," said Van as he charged the blade liger forward.
"Sir they have arrived," said a guard nervously. "What this is just great now we are stuck here," said a tired Eric. "Did you at least get the girl out of here?" asked Eric in a quiet yet deadly tone. "Unfortunately no sir there was a problem and we were unable to get her out of here," said the guard. "Bring her to me then. Also get the troops to the zoids," said Eric. "Yes sir," said the guard. Eric then left to go and get into his zoid. "Do you actually think that you can take my Fiona away from me? I don't care what happened. You can't just do that to her and so you will have to pay," said Eric with a smirk as the genosaurer charged up and he took off out of the base ready to take Van on.
Van and the others were already engaged in the battle against numerous zoids, which included Iron Kongs, command wolves, red horns, dark horns, and reddlers. "There are so many of these guys," said Van after taking down ten zoids and many more just took their place. "I know. It will be hard for us to get to Fiona at this rate," said Thomas as he used the megalomax to take down some zoids. "But how are we going to get by?" asked Van. "I have an idea. Van, you go ahead and we will hold off these zoids as long as we can," said Irvine. "Right I'll do it," said Van as he raced off. "Good luck Van, and make sure that when you come back that you have Fiona with you, because if you don't then you will have to answer to me," said Thomas with a smirk. "You have nothing to fear. She is in there and not even the deathsaurer can stop me from getting her back. Even if I have to destroy it ten times over. I will get her back. So you have nothing to worry about," said Van. "I gad better nit. So you had better not fail me," said Thomas as he watched the blade liger running off.
Van was running along getting closer to his destination but was intercepted by Eric. "Ah Van so good to see you," said Eric in a sickening voice. "Eric, give Fiona back to us," yelled Van through gritted teeth. "I don't think so. She is mine and I won't give her up. Especially not to someone like you after what you and her did," said Eric. 'How did he?' Van asked himself but decided to just put it aside. "Well then I guess I will have to defeat you in order to get her back," said Van as he started to attack. He charged up his blades and attacked but the genosaurer quickly moved out of the way. "You will never get me like that," said Eric as he taunted Van. "I just did that to get on your other side," said Van with a smirk as he shot at the ground and created a sand wall. "What? Where is he," yelled Eric and when the sand cleared out there was nothing around. "What? No, he's gotten away," yelled Eric. He ran as fast as he could back to his base but was unable to catch up to Van.
Van got to the base and him and Zeke went in. "Zeke keep your eyes open for any signs of Fiona," Van told Zeke as they walked through the empty hallways. Zeke growled in reply. They kept on walking and they then ran into the last person they wanted to see Eric. "You thought that you could get away from me," said Eric with a smirk. "And you thought that you could take Fiona away from me. well that will just not happen," said Eric as he held an unconscious Fiona in his grasp. "Fiona," yelled Van but she didn't respond. "What did you do to her," yelled Van giving him glares that anyone else would have cowered from. "She is all right she is just heavily sedated," said Eric. Van lost his temper and attacked Eric but he was unable to get a good hit in since he took the chance of hurting Fiona. "You are such a cowardly, hiding behind Fiona like that," said Van a she stopped his attack. "Fine, then it will be fun for me to kill you," said Eric as he handed Fiona to his organoid who held onto her with it's back. "There now we will see if you can beat me," said Eric as they started to fight. Van had the upper hand in the fight and as he was about to defeat Eric. Eric yelled for his organoids help so the organoid dropped Fiona and went to help. However Zeke got in his way and they started to fight each other as well. All of a sudden Eric took out a gun and shot it at Van. Van managed to dodge a few bullets as he charged at Eric. He hit him hard in the gut but Eric shot at Van one more time and it hit him in the stomach but he was able to get up from it. Eric was unlucky though and just laid on the ground in a really bad shape but his organoid got to him and got him out of there before Van could finish him off. Van went over to Fiona as Zeke came up to Van. "Zeke go and get the others," said Van as he clutched his wounded stomach as his breathing became very ragged. Zeke obeyed him and ran off in the direction of the exit. Van got down and picked up Fiona and started to walk off but was having trouble holding Fiona because of his wound but he kept on moving. He managed to get outside. "You are going to be safe now Fiona," said Van but he couldn't take it anymore and collapsed and hit the ground and passed out.
All that night Van just laid awake thinking about Fiona. "I should not have left her here alone," he said to himself. "It is all my fault. He has her because of me. I failed in my promise to her. However I have to try and make good on it or I won't be able to live with myself," he said as confidence was building up in his voice. "I will find her. I have to find her. it is the only way that I can be happy again," he said to himself. "I don't know where she is though. So how will I know where to look," Van said to himself. "I can't let her stay with him, but there isn't anything that I can do. "She is more important to me than anything. Yet I failed to protect her," Van said to himself. "Fiona," was the last thing that he said before he fell into a very restless sleep.
Fiona was just waking up and she was unsure where she was. "Ah she is waking up," said a voice Fiona had not heard before. She then got to have a very blurry look around at her surrounding. She was in a cell as far as she could tell but her vision was still blurry and she felt dizzy from the drug. "Where am I," Fiona asked still trying to see thing a little more clearly. "You young zoidian will not know that or if you escape you will tell your friends the location of this place," said the man very calmly. "Who are you?" asked Fiona slightly fearful of the answer. "He is just a doctor my dear Fiona," came Eric's voice. Suddenly Fiona started to get dizzy again and passed out. "She is out cold again. How much of that drug did you give her?" asked the man glaring at Eric. "Too much unfortunately doctor," said Eric in a voice that was way to calm. "Well it is not like it will matter I will soon have all the information that I will need for you," said the doctor. "That is good," said Eric, "and you will soon be all mine Fiona," said Eric as he put a grin on his face.
"Have you found out anything yet on where Fiona is yet?" asked Moonbay who had a broken arm that was in a cast. "Nothing as of yet," said Herman staring at a bunch of data on a screen. "Where is Van?" asked Irvine looking around the Van-less room. He also hadn't even seen him for most of the day. "I thought he would have been helping us look for her," said Irvine very seriously. "He is in his room sulking once again," said Moonbay in a disappointed voice. "He hasn't slept in days and won't do anything," said Moonbay. "Why is he taking this so hard? She was our friend too and we aren't acting like that," said Irvine. "I don't know. There must be something going on between the two of them," said Moonbay. "I think that may be it," said Irvine as he turned around and walked towards the door. "Where are you going?" asked Moonbay seeing him leave. "I am going to see if I can get him out of there," said Irvine as he walked off. "He could definitely use a good talking to with the way that he has been acting these past few days. There was definitely something going on between them but what I wonder actually happened?" Moonbay asked herself.
There was a knock on Vans door and Irvine walked in to find Van just lying on his bed staring at the ceiling with a blank look in his eye. "Van when are you going to get over this. You won't find Fiona by doing nothing," said Irvine in a very serious tone. "Fiona would never be in this mess if I had never found that guy," said Van. "Will you get over this Van? You have to stop blaming yourself. You tried to stop him but you didn't know what he was going to do," yelled Irvine. Van chose to ignore this, which really started to piss off Irvine. "What would Fiona say if she saw the way you are acting right now," said Irvine. Van was hit hard with these few words. Van finally started to talk a little more sensible. "She wouldn't be happy with the way I am acting," said Van starting to regain some of his old self. "Now are you going to come and help us or not," said Irvine. "Yeah. I will be in a few minutes," said Van quietly. "Ok," said Irvine as he walked out of the room. "I shouldn't have been acting like that. I was only making it worse for myself. Now I have to find Fiona before he does anything to hurt her even more," said Van as he walked out of the room.
Fiona was waking up again but this time she was not in a prison cell but in a very nice bedroom. As she stayed there on the bed she started to recover from the effect of the drug. "How long have I been out for?" she asked herself as she groggily sat up in the bed. "One week," came a voice that made Fiona jump since it was coming from Eric. "Keep away from me," yelled Fiona as she jumped far away from him. "What is wrong Fiona not happy to see me?" asked Eric and this made Fiona get even more scared than before. "Fine have it your way for now, but soon you will be mine," said Eric and he left the room. As he walked away he said to himself "Yes you will be mine and you will forget all about Van and your other friends." "It might not be as easy as that," said a voice that came from behind him. Eric turned around and saw the doctor standing behind him. "What do you mean by that?" asked Eric looking skeptically at the doctor. "What I mean is," he then whispered something to Eric. "What? You have to be kidding!" yelled Eric with fury all over his face. "I am afraid not," said the doctor. "There is no doubt about it," said the doctor. Fiona who had been listening through the door and was shocked at what she had just heard. She backed away from the door and fell to her knees. 'I can't be,' thought Fiona as she placed her hands on the ground to help support herself because she felt like she was going to faint. 'It just can't be,' she thought again.
The door to Fiona's room after a few minutes and Eric came walking through with a face full of fury. He saw Fiona on the ground with a look of disbelief on her face. "How dare you," he said in a very low tone. He walked up to Fiona and just stood there, standing before her looking down at her startled Form. He then brought a hand back and slapped Fiona hard across the face. Fiona flew back a couple of feet due to the force of the hit. She got back up and held her now sore cheek in her hands. "How dare you," he repeated in the same low tone as he had before. Fiona stared at him with fear in her eyes from all of the fury that she saw on him. "What made you think that you could do something like that?" he asked, as he got right into her face sending glares at her. The fear that Fiona was feeling before was nothing compared to what she was feeling now. "When you are with someone. You are not supposed to do something like that with another man," he said in a deranged voice. "I was never with you," Fiona yelled into his face. "Yes you are. You are mine, and mine only. Don't you see that?" he asked. "No! I am not yours. I hate you with everything that I am. I love Van and he loves me," she yelled into his face again. He was taken back by her sudden outburst. He quickly recovered though and for some strange reason he put a smirk on his face. "Such a fiery spirit you have. That is why I love you. I will have a lot of fun trying to tame you though," he said with a smile as he walked out of the room.
Van was out looking around for anything that might lead him to finding Fiona. "Man this is getting old we have checked about everywhere and have found no sign about the location of Fiona or that guy Eric," said Van as he pounded his hands on a nearby wall. "Lets not give up Van we will find her sooner or later," said Thomas. "The question I have is if she will be ok when we find her," said Van thinking of all the bad things that Eric could have been doing to her. "He hurt her so badly before and I wasn't there to help in time to stop him. Now it is happening again and I need to find her more than anything," said Van. "It is one of the few things that will keep me going since I know that I have to get her away from him. No matter what it takes though I will help her," said Van with a determination in his eyes that startled Thomas slightly. 'What is up with him? There is something different about him. I can't figure it out though. Could something have happened that I don't know about?' he thought while staring at his friend. "I hope so," said Thomas. "Fiona is scared of him after what he did to her. I can't leave her in his hands. That is why I must find her at all costs," said Van with the determination still very strong in his voice. "She is strong. So I am sure she will be ok once we find her," said Thomas trying to reassure Van. "I know she is. With someone like Eric though, I don't think that it will be enough for her. I hope that she can hold out though until I get there," said Van as he turned around and started to walk away.
"Ah Fiona are you ever going to eat anything," said Eric who was trying to give Fiona food but she kept on rejecting them. "You know that it isn't healthy for you. Especially now," he said with a smile. "Stay away from me," said Fiona not looking at him. "Why Fiona? I am only trying to help you. Yet you are denying my kindness," said Eric putting on a face that made Fiona feel like throwing up. "Van will come to get me and you will be sorry when he finds you," said Fiona with a determination in her eyes that made Eric mad. He managed to calm down though and said, "I doubt it. It has been two weeks since you came here and it doesn't look like they are trying hard enough to find you. So why do you still keep up this small hope that they are actually going to come for you?" asked Eric with a smile on her face. "Van promised me that he would always be there for me and he will come," said Fiona. "He will never find this place so I have nothing to worry about and you will be mine forever," said Eric as he left the room. "Where are you Van?" Fiona asked herself. "You promised. So where could you be?" she asked.
Fiona just stared out a window that was barred up so that she couldn't escape. "I hate it here," she said as she continued to stare out of the window. "I have to escape this place. Yet there doesn't appear to be any way out of here at the moment. The windows are sealed, the door are locked except for when either he or his servants come for me," she said as she now stared at the door. She waited and waited till she got an idea. 'It might work if I am careful. All I have to do is have some patience for the time being. Later on a servant of Eric came in. He was once again trying to bring her food. Yet when he opened the door he didn't see anyone in the room. 'Oh no,' he thought as he tried to run out of the room but as soon as he turned he was hit upside the head with a lamp that Fiona had in her hands. "I can't believe that that work," said Fiona as she looked out the now open door. "I have to get out of here now before someone else comes for me," said Fiona as she ran through the door. The halls were empty but Fiona stilled remained completely alert. Ready in case a servant was to come out from around a corner to see her. She managed to get by as she looked for some way that might help her get out. Luckily for her, she saw a room that had a radio in it. "This will be good in case I get caught," she said quietly as she walked into the room.
Meanwhile Eric was going to check on Fiona. He walked into her room expecting to see her but he found the knocked out servant. "I don't believe it," he yelled as he ran out of the room. "Hey you seal off all the exits. The prisoner has escaped," he said as he ran down the hall and pulled an alarm. Soldiers were everywhere now and on the lookout for Fiona. "Where could she have gone to," he asked himself as he too looked for her hoping that she hadn't already have gotten out of the base. "Sir the area within a ten mile radius has been checked and there is no sign of any life forms out there," said a soldier after a number of minutes of searching. "Where could she be then? If she isn't out there then she must still be in here. She would be trying to hide or get some help. So that could only mean," he said as he suddenly realized where she was after all this time. "She had better not be doing what I think she is doing," he said as he ran down the halls.
At the base nothing was going on. "There is an incoming message," said a soldier. "Bring it up," said Herman as he waited for whoever it was that was trying to contact them to be brought up on the screen. Van and Thomas came walking into the room at this time and were wondering what was going on. A fuzzy screen was brought up but no one was able to make out who it was due to all the static. When the person spoke they were happy to hear that it was Fiona but she sounded terrified. "Please. It is me, Fiona. You have got to help me," said Fiona with terror very clear in her voice. "I am being held hostage and." she was unable to finish because the link died. "Fiona come in," yelled Van as he tried to bring it back up but he got nothing. 'He must have gotten her,' he thought as he knew what was going on at the moment. "Did you get where that was coming from," Van asked a soldier with urgency in his voice. "Hold on a minute as I trace the transmission," said a soldier as he typed in a few keys. A moment later a screen popped up showing the location of the signal. "It is there," said the soldier. 'Finally. We have found them. It is time for me to get you back Fiona,' thought Van.
"Why you! How dare you do this after all the hospitality I have given you," yelled Eric as he grabbed her by the hand hard and started to drag her back to her room. Fiona struggled but his grip was just too strong and she wasn't able to get out of it. "Hospitality you keep me locked up and won't let me go," said Fiona as she struggled against his grip. One slight move and Fiona was able to get her hand free. She immediately broke out in a run and he gave chance after her. It only took a few seconds for him to catch up to her and he grabbed her to prevent her from getting any farther. Fiona couldn't do anything to get loose this time. So she used her nails and gave him a nasty gash on his face. "Why you," he yelled before he used all of his strength and hit her hard across the head knocking her out. "I will not be giving you anymore hospitality," he said as he picked Fiona up and took her away. He quickly ran his hand over the cut and felt the blood as it ran onto his hands. "How dare you do this to me," he said as he carried her down the halls.
"It is time for us to get her back," said Van as determination filled his eyes. 'I will get you back Fiona I promise,' thought Van as he let out a sigh. "It will be about two days travel to get to our destination," said Thomas from the dibison. "That is ok as long as we are able to get Fiona back," said Van. "Van, I am curious about something," said Moonbay as she hopped into the gustav. "What's that?" asked Van as he laid back to try and get some sleep so that he would be at full strength once they got there. "You are acting very strangely when it comes to the subject of Fiona. We are all upset by this, but you have been taking this worse than any of us. Is there something that is going on between the two of you?" asked Moonbay as she turned around to Van expecting an answer but instead she found and already sleeping Van. "Fine. Have it your way, but I will get the answer sooner or later," said Moonbay as she turned back around and drove the gustav through the sandy desert.
It was a day before Fiona was finally able to wake up but this time she was not in the room but in a prison cell. "You are finally waking up," said Eric in a cold voice from right beside her cell. "Where am I?" asked Fiona trying to get a look around the room. "You are in my prison and you have been asleep for three days," said Eric in the same cold voice again. "Now I will give you a choice. You can either stay here and watch as I kill Van or you can be with me and I will let you out of here happily," said Eric as he started to laugh. "You will never be able to kill Van and I would never go with you," said Fiona. "I assure you that I am perfectly able to kill Van. It should be easy in fact," said Eric with a smirk as he returned to his usual self. Fiona wasn't sure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. "No. You can't. He will get me out of here and we will be happy," said Fiona. "I can make you much happier. So why don't you stay with me?" asked Eric in a pleading voice. Fiona didn't respond to him. "So be it you will pay for this," he said as he walked off.
"Are you sure that you have gotten the coordinates right Moonbay?" asked Van as he looked at the map of their current location. "I am sure of it and we should be there by tomorrow," replied Moonbay. "I sure hope so, because I wouldn't want to take any longer to help her than I need to. She could be suffering and I have to get her out of there before he does something to her," he said hoping that everything was all right with Fiona. "I am sure that Fiona will be alright by the time that we get there. She is strong and will surely be able to hang on in this short amount of time," said Moonbay in hopes that it will help ensure Van that she would be ok. "Fiona, you have to hang on. We are all coming for you," Van said to himself.
"Sir we are ready to get this underway," said a servant. "Good," said Eric. "What is going on," said Fiona. "We are going to move to a new location after what you did they are bound to be on their way here by now," said Eric in an angry voice. "You are going to come if you like it or not so we could do this the easy way or the hard way," he said to Fiona who was struggling to get loose from the men that were holding her. "So be it, I guess it will be the hard way," said Eric as he took out a needle and a drug. He gave the drug to Fiona and she passed out almost immediately. "Take her away," said Eric and they did as they were told. "This could go easy on her if she would just do as I say," said Eric to himself. "Sir we have a problem," said a guard. "What is it?" asked Eric. "There is a large number of zoids heading our way and they should be here within the hour," said the guard. "What! We will have to speed up if we are to get away before they get here," said Eric and he ran off. "That isn't possible sir. It will take much longer than that even if we went as fast as possible," said the soldier. "Then I guess we will just have to fight them then," said Eric as he walked out of the room.
"Van, Irvine, and Thomas. We are coming up to the location so you had better get into your zoids," said Moonbay to the three guys in the back seat as she stopped the gustav for them to get out. "Right we will get going," said Van as he got out of the gustav to get to his zoid with Zeke following right behind him. "Zeke mobilize," yelled Van and Zeke fused with the liger. "We have to be prepared for anything that is to some. Do you think you can handle it Van?" asked Thomas. "I can handle anything if it means that I can get Fiona back to safety. I just know it," said Van as he charged the blade liger forward.
"Sir they have arrived," said a guard nervously. "What this is just great now we are stuck here," said a tired Eric. "Did you at least get the girl out of here?" asked Eric in a quiet yet deadly tone. "Unfortunately no sir there was a problem and we were unable to get her out of here," said the guard. "Bring her to me then. Also get the troops to the zoids," said Eric. "Yes sir," said the guard. Eric then left to go and get into his zoid. "Do you actually think that you can take my Fiona away from me? I don't care what happened. You can't just do that to her and so you will have to pay," said Eric with a smirk as the genosaurer charged up and he took off out of the base ready to take Van on.
Van and the others were already engaged in the battle against numerous zoids, which included Iron Kongs, command wolves, red horns, dark horns, and reddlers. "There are so many of these guys," said Van after taking down ten zoids and many more just took their place. "I know. It will be hard for us to get to Fiona at this rate," said Thomas as he used the megalomax to take down some zoids. "But how are we going to get by?" asked Van. "I have an idea. Van, you go ahead and we will hold off these zoids as long as we can," said Irvine. "Right I'll do it," said Van as he raced off. "Good luck Van, and make sure that when you come back that you have Fiona with you, because if you don't then you will have to answer to me," said Thomas with a smirk. "You have nothing to fear. She is in there and not even the deathsaurer can stop me from getting her back. Even if I have to destroy it ten times over. I will get her back. So you have nothing to worry about," said Van. "I gad better nit. So you had better not fail me," said Thomas as he watched the blade liger running off.
Van was running along getting closer to his destination but was intercepted by Eric. "Ah Van so good to see you," said Eric in a sickening voice. "Eric, give Fiona back to us," yelled Van through gritted teeth. "I don't think so. She is mine and I won't give her up. Especially not to someone like you after what you and her did," said Eric. 'How did he?' Van asked himself but decided to just put it aside. "Well then I guess I will have to defeat you in order to get her back," said Van as he started to attack. He charged up his blades and attacked but the genosaurer quickly moved out of the way. "You will never get me like that," said Eric as he taunted Van. "I just did that to get on your other side," said Van with a smirk as he shot at the ground and created a sand wall. "What? Where is he," yelled Eric and when the sand cleared out there was nothing around. "What? No, he's gotten away," yelled Eric. He ran as fast as he could back to his base but was unable to catch up to Van.
Van got to the base and him and Zeke went in. "Zeke keep your eyes open for any signs of Fiona," Van told Zeke as they walked through the empty hallways. Zeke growled in reply. They kept on walking and they then ran into the last person they wanted to see Eric. "You thought that you could get away from me," said Eric with a smirk. "And you thought that you could take Fiona away from me. well that will just not happen," said Eric as he held an unconscious Fiona in his grasp. "Fiona," yelled Van but she didn't respond. "What did you do to her," yelled Van giving him glares that anyone else would have cowered from. "She is all right she is just heavily sedated," said Eric. Van lost his temper and attacked Eric but he was unable to get a good hit in since he took the chance of hurting Fiona. "You are such a cowardly, hiding behind Fiona like that," said Van a she stopped his attack. "Fine, then it will be fun for me to kill you," said Eric as he handed Fiona to his organoid who held onto her with it's back. "There now we will see if you can beat me," said Eric as they started to fight. Van had the upper hand in the fight and as he was about to defeat Eric. Eric yelled for his organoids help so the organoid dropped Fiona and went to help. However Zeke got in his way and they started to fight each other as well. All of a sudden Eric took out a gun and shot it at Van. Van managed to dodge a few bullets as he charged at Eric. He hit him hard in the gut but Eric shot at Van one more time and it hit him in the stomach but he was able to get up from it. Eric was unlucky though and just laid on the ground in a really bad shape but his organoid got to him and got him out of there before Van could finish him off. Van went over to Fiona as Zeke came up to Van. "Zeke go and get the others," said Van as he clutched his wounded stomach as his breathing became very ragged. Zeke obeyed him and ran off in the direction of the exit. Van got down and picked up Fiona and started to walk off but was having trouble holding Fiona because of his wound but he kept on moving. He managed to get outside. "You are going to be safe now Fiona," said Van but he couldn't take it anymore and collapsed and hit the ground and passed out.